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It's what you thought you knew but didn't that breaks your heart: GDP revision edition
This week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will update the national accounts, which include GDP and other key statistics. It could alter the narrative…
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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
What should be good news for people seems to be falling flat even relative to prior times with high inflation.
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Labor Day is the end of summer. What if it's the end of the strong labor market, too?
It does not have to be.
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Let's get real: the American Rescue Plan was the best economic policy in forty years
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Ban the Phillips Curve
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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
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Olivier throws it down: the Fed does not decide what is inflation is, we do
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The Sahm rule: I created a monster
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The Star-ry Night in Jackson Hole
Central bankers will soon travel to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as they do every year, to think big thoughts on monetary policy and relax under the stars.
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What would Frances Perkins do?
With the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, comparisons of President Biden to F.D.R. and his legislation to the New Deal. But there's something…
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How good is the economics in Bidenomics?
Last week, President Biden laid out his thinking on economic policy, so how does it line up with the thinking of economists?
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Looking local for early signs of trouble
Too often, we stop at national data to spin our story about the economy. Even though it's the local economy where workers and small businesses live…
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Inflation: it's "complicated"
What's been causing inflation is important. Get it wrong, and we get the wrong policies. And we learn the wrong lessons for the future.
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Price-price spirals take us for a spin
Macroeconomists fiercely debate the causes of inflation now and how policymakers should respond. Profits as a driver of inflation is an especially…
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Is the Fed data-driven or data-ridden?
The Federal Reserve constantly reminds us that its decisions are “data-driven” or “data-dependent.” But what does that even mean? And what are the…
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